Definition of Claxon

1. Noun. A kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles.

Exact synonyms: Klaxon
Generic synonyms: Horn

2. Verb. Make a loud noise. "The streets claxon with cars "; "The horns of the taxis blared"
Exact synonyms: Beep, Blare, Honk, Toot
Generic synonyms: Go, Sound
Specialized synonyms: Tootle
Derivative terms: Beep, Beeper, Honker, Toot

3. Verb. Use the horn of a car.
Exact synonyms: Honk
Generic synonyms: Make Noise, Noise, Resound
Derivative terms: Honker

Definition of Claxon

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of klaxon) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Claxon

1. klaxon [n -S] - See also: klaxon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Claxon

clawed frogs
clawedness
clawer
clawers
clawfeet
clawfoot
clawfooted
clawhammer
clawhammers
clawhand
clawing
clawingly
clawless
clawlike
claws
claxon (current term)
claxons
clay
clay-colored robin
clay pigeon
clay pigeon poisoning
clay pigeons
clay pipe
clay sculpture
clay shoveler's fracture
clay up
claybank
claybanks
claybed
claybeds

Literary usage of Claxon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Selected Civil and Criminal Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals by Kentucky Court of Appeals, William Pope Duvall Bush (1879)
"claxon v. Demaree. APPEAL FROM HENRY CIRCUIT COURT. 1. IP BY MISTAKE A NOTE IS EXECUTED FOR TOO LARGE AN AMOUNT, in a suit on the note the defendant may ..."

2. Reports of Cases by New York (State). Court of Appeals (1910)
"It is enough to say that the examination was confined strictly to the declarations and mental processes of the plaintiff at the time he discharged claxon, ..."

3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Robert claxon of the Dragon, fled to Portugall for feare of punishment, and came to us with an ... Robert claxon also turned Moore, at the Decan Court had ..."

4. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1899)
"claxon, 12 Bush (Ky.)558. 2. Farrington v. Wright, i Minn. 241, holding that a party taking an order by default must see to it at his peril that the ..."

5. The Publications of the Harleian Society by Harleian Society (1887)
"Edward Reynolds, of Wapping, Middlesex, Sailor, & Rose claxon, of same, Widow, relict of Ju'd claxon, decd ; at S' Peter's, Paul's Wharf. ..."

6. Allegations for Marriage Licences Issued by the Bishop of London, 1520 to [1828] by Joseph Lemuel Chester, Church of England Diocese of London (1887)
"... of Wapping, Middlesex, Sailor, & Eose claxon, of same, Spinster; at Widford, со. ... Widow, relict of Ju'd claxon, decd ; at S' Peter's, Paul's Wharf. ..."

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